Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Thou shalt be pedicate (lad!), thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered;
- While for the bearded thief is the third penalty kept.
- Here' Here! nor dare expect (whoe'er thou be)
- To 'scape the Lecher God's fane venerand;
- And, if a damsel lay the night with thee,
- From this my presence fear not to be bann'd
- Fen as the sterner Gods of Heaven command.
- The Ne'er-do-wells and paltry gods are we
- Of rural worship and 'spite modesty
- Aye under Jove with balls a-bare we stand:
- Then enter whoso hither entry seek
- Reckless of bawdy-house's blackened reek!
- Charged to my charge the fieldlet who shall dare
- With hand not modest anywise molest,
- Me fox no eunuch he shall know and feet.